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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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